By Stu Harrison Israel’s ongoing takeover of East Jerusalem shows it is trying to kill any hope of a negotiated settlement to Palestine’s struggle for self-determination. Israel approved plans to build 844 housing units outside […]

By Jonathan Cook – Nazareth Israel’s finance minister was accused last week of trying to deflect attention from discriminatory policies keeping many of the country’s Arab families in poverty by blaming their economic troubles on what […]

By Sonja Karkar The news that former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was in Australia and was welcomed by the honourable members of our parliament came as somewhat of a shock. It is one thing to […]

By Uri Avnery – Israel Thomas Friedman, the New York Times columnist, has an idea. That happens to him quite often. One might almost say – too often. It goes like this: The US will […]

By Jim Miles The task of saving and reviving humanity oft times appears overwhelming when studied from a fully global perspective: occupations, wars, and terror abounds; starvation, disease, poverty, homelessness, accompany the wars and are […]

By Alfred Warkentin When ‘W’ walked into the Oval Office he was a theocracy. He had received his orders; he understood them. From the moment he sat down he knew he was about God’s work. […]

By Ghada Karmi Palestinian history is at one of its most serious and important junctures. The peace negotiations that commenced with the Oslo accords in 1993 are at an end. Even hardened devotees of the […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London The UK is now in the grip of festive fever as the nation prepares for the customary annual binge called Christmas. Despite the recession families are being urged to spend, […]

By Adam Shapiro One year ago, I watched election results coming in for Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District, where my friend and colleague Tom Perriello was challenging incumbent Virgil Goode, Jr. CNN kept flipping the winner […]

By Franklin Lamb – Beirut "It is the right of the Lebanese people, Army and the (Hezbollah led-) resistance to liberate the Shebaa Farms, the Kfar Shuba Hills and the northern part of the village […]

By Stuart Littlewood – London The recent Channel 4 TV Dispatches programme, which probed the antics of the pro-Israel lobby in British politics, has opened up this hitherto forbidden subject to public debate. Basic questions […]

By George S. Hishmeh – Washington A new bright star seems to have risen above the Arab world, heralding new relationships that could benefit the region as a whole. The Arab change of heart towards […]

By Bernard Avishai During the first night of the J Street conference, when delegates were just getting settled, a half dozen speakers—activists, rabbis and students—unexpectedly poured their hearts out. The 1,500 people in the hall, […]

By Ramzy Baroud This week Americans will observe ‘Thanksgiving’ commemorating a romanticized era in their nations record, celebrating the supposed solidarity and brotherhood enjoyed by the first settlers and the indigenous people of what is […]

By Stephen Lendman On November 20, New York Times writer Colin Moynihan broke the news headlining: "Radical Lawyer Convicted of Aiding Terrorist Is Jailed," then saying: "Defiant to the end as she embraced supporters outside […]

By Uri Avnery – Israel 25 November 2009 I recall my last conversation with Yasser Arafat in his Ramallah compound a few weeks before his death. It was he who brought up the idea of […]

By Ramzy Baroud Like scores of journalists, I attentively listened as Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong delivering his closing remarks, and for the last time answering journalists’ questions. It was the conclusion of 17th […]